Personalizing Your Portal 

Purpose

SAP NetWeaver Portal personalization features enable you to focus exclusively on data relevant to your daily decision-making processes. You can personalize your portal in various ways, such as determining which available content you display, and how and where you display it.

Process Flow

The following is a brief overview of the personalization options of the portal. Complete information is found in the portal user guide.

Portal Preferences

Clicking Personalize in the portal masthead opens a new window that displays a list of the portal elements that you can personalize and the personalization page of the first item.

●     Portal Theme. Change the look and feel of the portal by selecting a theme from the portal's theme library.

●     User Profile. Update the user profile you created when you first registered (see Logging On to / Off the Portal). The profile interface also lets you set the following:

○     Portal Language. Choose the language in which you want to work by changing the language in which portal UI strings appear.

As an administrator you can also determine the set of languages available in a specific portal. For more information, see Customizing the Set of Available Languages.

○     User Password. Change your logon password periodically to enhance portal security.

○     User Mapping. Configure the portal to use your portal logon credentials to access various systems that require different logon credentials by enabling Single Sign-On.

●     User Mapping (Remote iViews). Enter logon information for iViews that deliver content from a remote content provider.

This option is relevant only if your organization has set up a federated portal network that enables the sharing of content between portals.

●     WorkProtect Mode. Protect unsaved data by setting a page flag that causes new objects to open in new windows during navigation.

See Setting Portal Preferences for specific information about the personalization interfaces of the above options.

Page Preferences

To set your page preferences, select the portal page you want to personalize, click the Options icon in the page title bar, and select Personalize from the drop-down menu. The Personalize Page opens in a new window, displaying the layout and content of the selected page.

Interface

In the Personalize Page environment, the tree structure of the navigation panel displays the following two nodes:

●     Personalized Page: This node lists the iViews that are presently part of the page, including iViews that have been set as hidden. Display a hidden iView by right-clicking it and choosing Add iView to Page.

●     Portal Content: The second node opens to display all the content assigned to you, allowing you to add other iViews and pages to the current page.

Options

You can perform the following to personalize your page:

●     Add/Remove Content. Your portal content administrator defines the iViews to which you have access. The Portal Catalog displays all the content that is available to you. Right-click an iView you want to display in the page and choose Add iView to Page. After saving, you can see the added iView in the Personalized Page area of the navigation panel and in the content area.

As a portal administrator you can obtain more content from SAP Developer Network (SDN) in the Portal Content Portfolio at www.sdn.sap.com.

●     Arrange Content. You can select a different layout and rearrange the content displayed in the page.

After saving your changes, refresh your portal in order to view the changes.

For more information see Personalizing Portal Pages.